by NVGogol

Dramatic script and artistic direction: Bogdan Huşanu
Scenography: Oana Cernea
Premiere date: 24.05.2008

Akaki Akakievich, a petty official who has known in life only the satisfaction of mechanically copying bureaucratic documents, is taken out of his imperturbable and banal universe the moment he decides to order a new overcoat from the tailor. The happiness that the overcoat offers him is, for Akaki Akakievich, immense, but short-lived. On the very first day of using the overcoat, he is robbed of it, the rest of the play being dedicated to the character's research and the unexpected way in which he will find peace.

The text harmoniously interweaves the suspense created by a series of small, downright ridiculous elements, the absurdity of Kafkaesque authoritarian social relations, and the fantastic inserted with a naturalness specific to Poe.

Distribution:

Akaki Akakievich Bashmachikin:  Petre Ghimbasan
The man on the catalog, the director, a sergeant, the second thief:  Sorin Ionescu
Grigory Petrovich, The Footman, A Sergeant:  Ion Abrudan
The Midwife, The Landlady, A Sergeant:  Mariana Vasile
Arina Semionova Belobryushina, The Tailor's Wife:  Ileana Iurciuc
The Godfather, The First Thief, The Important Person:  Sebastian Wolf
The second colleague, the Doctor, a gentleman, the Inspector:  Andrian Locovei
First colleague, the Guardian:  Pavel Sirghi
Ivan Ivanovich Eroshkin, Third Colleague, Commissar:  Ion Ruscut
The woman giving birth, A waiter, A lady:  Mirela Lupu

Technical director and prompter: Adrian Moraru
Lighting: Sandor Attila Nagy, Sorin Precup, Iosif Balogh
Sound: Sorin Domide, Adrian Gherdan